Student Charged In Death Of Girl, 15

April 05, 1986

A 17-year-old second-year Near North Career Magnet High School student was charged Friday with murder and aggravated battery for Thursday`s fatal shooting of one girl and the wounding of another in the Cabrini-Green housing project. Police were trying to determine whether the killing was related to the dead girl`s testimony last December before a grand jury that was investigating another gang killing, investigators said. Charged in the Thursday incident was Johnny Walls, 13234 S. Ellis Ave., who was identified in a lineup as the assailant who killed Kim Hedgefield, 15, of 915 N. Washtenaw Ave., and wounded her companion, Monique Hill, 14, of North Cleveland Avenue. The girls, both grade school pupils, were on a Chicago Housing Authority playground at 1119 N. Cleveland Ave. when two youths walked up and made remarks that witnesses said were threats, according to police. The youths left but returned a short time later, and one of them pulled out a handgun and fired at the girls, police said. Police did not have details of the incident that Hedgefield testified about or whether the grand jury returned any indictments.